The military’s media wing reported on Monday that a security guard was killed in an IED attack in the Jani Khel neighbourhood of the Bannu region of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
The Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) named the murdered soldier as Sepoy Gul Sher, a 24 year old Khyber district inhabitant.
As the armed forces fight against escalating terror, the military’s propaganda wing declared that “sanitization of the area is being carried out to eradicate any terrorists in the area.”
Attacks against security personnel and residents in general have grown as a number of militant groups have reassembled, posing a serious threat to the nation, which has fought terrorism on numerous occasions.
After the illegal Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) broke a cease-fire with Islamabad in November of last year, attacks mounted both inside Pakistan and from the Afghan border.
According to sources, the TTP has reunited in Afghanistan following the Taliban’s takeover, and Pakistan has repeatedly urged the neighbouring country’s interim administration to prevent terrorism from being committed on its soil.
However, the Taliban-led administration has fallen short of expectations.
According to statistics released by Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah, militant activity has been concentrated mostly in Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, with the former accounting for 31% of attacks during the past year and the latter 67%.
